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george mano
george mano

Reputation: 6168

Stop functions in 5 minutes if they dont end running

I want to add a feature in my project.

I have 2 functions running in a for-loop because I want to find the solution of the functions in random arrays. I also have an function that makes random arrays. In each loop the array that is made by the random_array fun are the input of the 2 functions. The 2 functions print solutions in the screen , they dont return an argument. 

int main(){
    for (i=0;i<50 i++)
    {
    arr1=ramdom_array();
    func1(arr1)
    func2(arr1)
    }
}

I need to stop the functions running if they have not ended in 5 minutes. I have thought that I have to put in the functions something like this :

void func1(array<array<int,4>,4> initial)
{
while (5minutes_not_passed)
{
//do staff
if(solution==true)
break;
}
}

But I dont know what to put in the 5minutes_not_passed.

the declaration of the functions are like this:

void func1(array<array<int,4>,4> initial)
void func2(array<array<int,4>,4> initial)

I have found that I can use the thread library but I dont think meshing up with threads in a good idea. I believe something like a timer is needed. Note that the functions sometimes might end before 5 minutes.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2848

Answers (4)

Arvind
Arvind

Reputation: 478

Or maybe you can use something like kevents (freebsd) which has a timer notification and Signal handling would do the trick too. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-to-use-sigusr1-and-sigusr2-391489/

So,after a timeout, you would need to send a SIGUSR1 to your process,and then in the signal handler function,you could have your logic for exiting.

Upvotes: 0

tprk77
tprk77

Reputation: 1161

I know you said you don't want to use threads, but boost::thread would make this really easy.

boost::thread t(boost::bind(func1, arr1));
if(!t1.timed_join(boost::posix_time::minutes(5))){
    // thread still running, use interrupt or detach
}

Upvotes: 0

Samy Arous
Samy Arous

Reputation: 6814

I would recommend executing your function in a thread with a timeout. Here's a link to a similar asked question:

C++: How to implement a timeout for an arbitrary function call?

Upvotes: 0

EvilTeach
EvilTeach

Reputation: 28837

Use time_t and time to get the current second.

add 5 * 60 to that value.

in every iteration of the loop, get the time, and if it is greater than or equal to your limit, break out

Upvotes: 3

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